Salinas man could get 100-year sentence in sexual abuse case

A 36-year-old Salinas man could face more than 100 years in prison after a jury found him guilty Tuesday of 22 counts of felony sexual offenses involving an underage girl, according to a Monterey County District Attorney's office release.

Jose Luna, who was arrested in November 2012, was found guilty of multiple acts of lewd acts on a child, forcible oral copulation and unlawful intercourse with a child over the course of four years.

After he was caught in a compromising and abusive position with the teenager in her room by her mother, the girl, now 17, admitted the relationship began when she was 13.

Monterey County Superior Court Judge John Phillips announced following the verdict he'd found a true prior strike allegation against Luna based on a 1996 conviction for assault with a firearm.